LIFE IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN THE DAYS OF THE TYRANTS OE,
CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM. FBOM THE SPANISH OF DOMINGO F.
SARMIENTO, LL. D., MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY PROM THE ARGENTINE
REPUBLIC TO THE UNITED STATES. WITH A BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCH OP THE
AUTHOK, BY MRS. HORACE MANN. First American from the third Spanish
Edition. HAFNER PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK First published in 1868
Published by HAFNEH PUBLISHING Co., INC. 31 East 10th Street New
York 3, N. Y. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-11057
Printed in the U. S. A. Noble Offset Printers, Inc. New York 3, N.
Y. S tzm Phd quot PREFACE. tAMSAS GUY QKD3 rUbliU UDKAOT SINCE the
translation of this work by Colonel Sar miento was begun, the tide
of events has carried its author to the proudest position before
his country which any man since San Martin, the hero of its
independence and of the independence of some of its sister
Republics, has ever occupied. It is true that cir cumstances of
even a trivial nature, and still more fre quently of a corrupt
nature, often bring a man to the chieftainship of his country,
whether the office is elec tive or otherwise but in this instance
such circum stances have been singularly wanting. Colonel Sarmi
ento, after an absence of seven years from his coun try, without
any political party, without any pledges of policy given or
required, without any of the machinery that is generally used to
set in motion such important measures, has by an almost unanimous
movement been made the candidate par excellence for the Presidency
of the Argentine Republic, and the returns are already IV PREFACE.
known from the province of Buenos Ayres, which contains one third
of the population of the whole Republic, andis by far the
wealthiest, most cultivated, and most influential part of it. In
this province his election has been complete and unanimous, and the
voice of many other provinces has long been heard through their
daily organs, so that doubtless before these pages see the light,
the favorable result will be confirmed. Colonel Sarmiento has
resisted all the entreaties of his friends to return to his country
to aid the interests of his election. He has chosen to wait until
elected by the unbiassed will of his countrymen, and for wise as
well as self-respecting reasons, All who have followed the golden
thread of his life through the chaotic changes that have harassed
the life of the Republic, so determined to be free and progressive,
in spite of all the temporary reactions of the barbaric element
which has its seat in the peculiar composition of its society, feel
with him that it is only by apprecia tion of his motives, sympathy
with his aims, and confi dence in his ability to save them from the
present threatened anarchy, that he can have any assurance of doing
good from the high position now assigned him. He has never
flattered his countrymen he has always recognized the barbarian
tendencies which have so often overpowered the equally persistent
but vitally permanent influences of civilization, and he has been
PREFACE V equally assiduous in his endeavors to arouse them from
the apathy inherent, as it were, in a Spanish and at the same -
time priest-ridden community but even Cordova, the quot city of
priests, quot anchored in conserva tism by the very character of
its extraordinary univer sity culture, looks to him now as the only
salvation for the nation. Although a man of decided
militaryability, as has been proved at various times when
patriotism has called him into the field, Colonel Sarmiento is
eminently a man of peace, and during a long exile of twenty years,
as well as in his subsequent brilliant career as Chief of the
Department of Schools, Senator, Minister of State, and Governor of
his native province, in his diplomatic missions to Chili, Peru, and
the United States, has had but one watchword quot The Education of
the People...
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